Fuck Cars
This community exists as a sister community/copycat community to the r/fuckcars subreddit.
This community exists for the following reasons:
- to raise awareness around the dangers, inefficiencies and injustice that can come from car dependence.
- to allow a place to discuss and promote more healthy transport methods and ways of living.
You can find the Matrix chat room for this community here.
Rules
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Be nice to each other. Being aggressive or inflammatory towards other users will get you banned. Name calling or obvious trolling falls under that. Hate cars, hate the system, but not people. While some drivers definitely deserve some hate, most of them didn't choose car-centric life out of free will.
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No bigotry or hate. Racism, transphobia, misogyny, ableism, homophobia, chauvinism, fat-shaming, body-shaming, stigmatization of people experiencing homeless or substance users, etc. are not tolerated. Don't use slurs. You can laugh at someone's fragile masculinity without associating it with their body. The correlation between car-culture and body weight is not an excuse for fat-shaming.
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Stay on-topic. Submissions should be on-topic to the externalities of car culture in urban development and communities globally. Posting about alternatives to cars and car culture is fine. Don't post literal car fucking.
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No traffic violence. Do not post depictions of traffic violence. NSFW or NSFL posts are not allowed. Gawking at crashes is not allowed. Be respectful to people who are a victim of traffic violence or otherwise traumatized by it. News articles about crashes and statistics about traffic violence are allowed. Glorifying traffic violence will get you banned.
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No reposts. Before sharing, check if your post isn't a repost. Reposts that add something new are fine. Reposts that are sharing content from somewhere else are fine too.
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No misinformation. Masks and vaccines save lives during a pandemic, climate change is real and anthropogenic - and denial of these and other established facts will get you banned. False or highly speculative titles will get your post deleted.
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No harassment. Posts that (may) cause harassment, dogpiling or brigading, intentionally or not, will be removed. Please do not post screenshots containing uncensored usernames. Actual harassment, dogpiling or brigading is a bannable offence.
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I used to live in a small town, less than 20k people, I could walk to several instances of each of these things in about 10 minutes (except a university or hospital, which were a 15 minute drive away). This in Mexico.
I don't know why it couldn't be done in the US...
I don't live in a town at all. I live in the country. I don't want to walk to a grocery store 15 minutes away because I don't want them to cut down a bunch of trees or plow up a farmer's field to make one.
I grew up in a village of 3000 in rural England. We had three pubs, a post office, two grocery/general stores, a butcher, a baker, a village hall, a doctor and a pharmacy, a primary and a secondary school, a church...
that is how life used to be for the majority of people across the world.
Great. I don't live in a village. I live out in the country. Are you saying we should chop down the woods and pave over the farm fields so that I can walk to a bunch of shops?
You can't give me half an ultimatum. Not that this is necessarily a dichotomy - but in this scenario you are setting up I don't understand what you're framing as the "good" option if the "bad" options is build a local shop?
I would say the good option would be to not pave over nature and farms for convenience's sake.
so in your world view there is only "pave over farms" and "not"
what about drained marshland, deserts, tundra, non arable land, protected green spaces, farrow...
if there are only farms and pavement are you saying that suburbia doesn't exist? Are you saying that commuter belts are a fiction?
There are only farms and woods around me.
If you want to pave over the Sahara, go for it. I don't want the countryside I am around paved over so that people can buy a Twinkie at 2 am.
and there is no point within a two-mile radius of any property boundary where you live where you could build a single shop?
Without cutting down trees or paving over farm fields? No. Why are you so intent on nature being destroyed for the sake of capitalism?
That's your choice to live in bumfuck nowhere, this conversation isn't about you...
Yes, my "choice" to get the only house my family could afford close enough to where we work.
How dare I choose to not be homeless!
So you could only afford a shit shack, therefore it wasn't your choice, yet somehow want to dictate how civilized places build infrastructure as if it was your choice? Do you need a dictionary to look up "hypocrisy"?
Sorry, you want me to raise my family in a one-room hovel? Because I think "you didn't raise your child living like a medieval peasant, therefore you had a choice" is being a little pedantic.
No, I think you should shut the fuck up when people are talking about how cities should be organized when you don't even live in one
You don't look like a mod to me. But feel free to flag my comments and see if they agree that I shouldn't be allowed to say things in this community.
No one is forcing you to talk to someone who has the inability to think. If I thought that's who I was talking to, I'd stop replying. I guess you enjoy this conversation.
Grocery stores can be small, also farmer towns exist where a small community lives with their farms around them. There are ways of doing it and it's done in several places.
But I concede that the bigger the place the easier it is to do a 15 minute city.
So, you're fine. Big cities and suburbs have no excuse, tho.